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STATES PATENT ori-acs.

WILLIAM P. DUN LANY. 0F CHICAGO. ILLINOISv ASSIGNOR T0 SEARS, ROEBUCKAND CO.. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

INSERTING, FOLDING, AND WRAPPING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Application filed May 25, 1918. Serial No. 236,499.

To all whom 'it may conce/vi.'

Be it known that l, lViLLrAu l. DUN LANY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois. have invented certain new and useful Improvements inInserting, Folding, and Trapping Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

In sending out catalogs, it is customary with some firms to place ineach catalog one or more inserts for the convenience of the customer,as, for example, order blanks, postcards, addressed envelopes, and likea1'- ticles, and heretofore the. placing of these articles in each.catalog has been done by hand.

It is the general object of this invention to produce a machine by whichsuch articles may be placed in catalogs automatically, and the inventioncontemplates a machine which is arranged to automatically withdraw anarticle from each ot' a plurality of magazines; to collect all thearticles in separate groups, cach group containing one or any desirednumber of each kind; to feed catalogs singly7 and successively from astack; to open each catalog; to deposit an article or a group ofarticles therein; to fold the catalog, to place a wrapper about theJfolded catalog, and to stamp and address the wrapper ready for thecatalog to be mailed.

Some of the special objects of my invention are to provide a specialconveyor particularly adapted to receive, convey and deliver inassembled groups, articles of different kinds and sizes; and also todevise novel means for opening books or similar articles which have beencompletely assembled and stored prior to their use in my improved deviceso that there is no tendency for the book to 'fall open and ordinarysuc-- tion devices are inadequate.

Many other special objects and advantages of my improved device willbecome apparent as the description proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings, which show one of many possibleembodiments of my invention, Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations lookingat opposite sides of the machine.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation.

Figs. 4, 5 and 6, taken together, constitute a vertical central sectionfrom front to rear through the machine taken in the plane of line 4--4oi Fig. 3.

Fig. T (Sheet 4) is a detail view of a train of gears Jr'or driving thecatalog-folding rolls.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional view in the plane ot' line 8-8 of Fig.9, illustrating the magazine for the order blanks and the means forfeeding said blanks to the assembling conveyor.

Fig. 9 is a front elevation of the feed means seen in Fig. 8, the viewbeing taken in the plane of line 9-9 of Fig. 8.

Fig. l() is an elevation, looking at the right end of Fig. 9.

Fig. 11` is a sectional detail view of a valve shown in Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is an enlarged sectional view in the plane of liuc 12-12 of Fig.13, showing one ot the two magazines and Jfeeding means for postcardinserts.

Fig'. 13 is a view in the nature of a front elevation. looking in theplane of line 18u13 ot' Fig. 12, and showing the feeding means for thepostcards.

Fig. 14 is a sectional view of the catalog magazine and feeding means,the section being taken in about the plane of line 14--14 of Fig. 1.

Figs. l5 and 16 are sections in the planes of lines 15u15 and 16-16 ofFig. 14.

Fig. 17 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken iu about the sameplane as Fig. 5 and illustrating the catalog folding and wrapping means.The exact plane ot the section is indicated by line 17--17 of Fig. 19.

Figs. 18 and 19 are sectional views taken in the planes of lines 18--18and 19-19 respectively of Fig. 17.

Fig. 2O is an. enlarged vertical section in about the same plane as Fig.5 illustrating the means for detecting the absence of a wrapper for thecatalog and for automatically stopping the machine if a wrapper is notin position.

Figs. 21 and 22 are sections on lines 21--21 and 22H22 respectively ofFig. 20.

Fig. 23 is a sectional view showing the catalog-detector means in frontelevation.

Fig. 24 is an enlarged side elevation of a rack and gear device forintermittently actuating the wrapper feeding means.

Fig. 25 is a section on line 25-25 of Fig. 24:.

Fig. 26 is an enlarged vertical section in about the plane of Fig. 5,illustrating the means for ppening a catalog to admit articlesthereinto.

Fig. 27 is a front view in the. plane of line 27-27 ot Figi 26.

Figs. 28 and 29 are detailed views. showing in two different positionsthe means for detecting the absence of a catalog and for stopping themachine if no catalog is present in the position to receive articles.

Fig. 30 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the electrical driving,controlling, and operating mechanism.

Fig. 31 is an elevation of the printing cylinder for printing theaddress, return card and prepayment postage stamp on the. wrapper on thecatalog.

Fig. 32 is a section in the plane of line 32-32 of Fig. 3l.

Figs. 33 to 42 inclusive are diagrammatic views in a series showing theprogressive steps of the operations on the inserts, catalog and wrapper.

.Brief description of whole machine.

Before proceeding with a detailed description of the mechanism ofthe'machine, l will now outline the nature of the work to be done by themachine, and the structure and functions of the principal elements, sothat the later detailed description may be more clearly understood.

The nature of the Work or operations performed by the present machinewill best be understood by an examination of the development series ofviews in Figs. 33 to 42 inclusive of the drawings. The machine isarranged to select first an insert a, as for example an order blank (seeFig. 33) This is carried to the next insert station where two otherarticles such as postcards are associated therewith (see Fig. 34). Atthe next station two more articles, as for example additional postcardsb, are added to the group (Fig. 35) and at the fourth station, which isthe last'insert station in the present machine, an envelo e c andanother insert which may be a c ange-of-address.

blank or order slip d', are added to the group. Fig. 36 represents acomplete group of articles as they are selected by the present machine.lin 'Fig'. 37 is shown an open catalogl e in which the group of articlesshown in Fig. 36 have been placed. While for convenience in illustratingthe same, the wrapper or book has been illustrated as a single sectionor brochure, my invention is not limited to the use of a single sectionbut is especially adapted to operate not only on single sections butalso on large bound books of :incanto considerable. thickness; F ig. 38represents the catalog closed upon the articles. Fig. 39 represents thecatalog with the articles therein folded in half and resting on awrapper f. lin the next operation of the machine the wrapper ispartially folded by the catalog as seen in Fig. 4:0 and the remainingflap of the wrapper which has previously been supplied with paste isthen folded over as seen in Fig. il to complete the wrap ping operation.Fig. 42 represents the folded and wrapped catalog addressed and stamped,the address of the sender being designated g and the address of theaddressee being designated It. y' indicates a printed stamp for sho-wingprepayment of postage for the package.

rlhe nature of the mechanisms for performing these operations will nowbe briefly explained and will be best understood by reference to Figs. lto 5 inclusive. At the top of the machine are a plurality of stations(in this instance four) designated A, B, C and D. At each station thereis a magazine, or magazines, containing inserts of any character desiredand there is also means for automatically feeding or withdrawing thesearticles or inserts singly and successively from the magazine anddepositing them upon a conveyor beneath. These stations and` theconveyor are arranged at the front of the machine and extend in aninclined plane. rlhe conveyor is divided into sections, each of which isarranged to receive an insert from station A, then to pass on andreceive articles or inserts successively from stations B, C and D, sothat carga conveyor section will at the proper time eliver acompactgroup of articles into an open catalog. rllhe catalog magazine andfeeding means as a whole is designated E, and the feeding means isarranged to singly and successively withdraw the lowermost catalogs fromthe pile in the magazine. After such withdrawal, eachl catalog descendsby gravity into a box, the catalog standing in an inclined uprightposition with the open edge of the catalog uppermost and adjacent to thelower end of the insert-collecting conveyor. rlhe catalog is then openedby automatic means in time to receive the group of articles dischargedby the'conveyor, after which the catalog is closed and is given a singlefold along a horizontal median line by means of a knife and co-operatingrollers. These rollers deliver the folded catalog upon a horizontallypositioned Wrapper and then force -the catalog and the wrapper into anoscillatory box which in connection with an arcuate or circumferentialplate and another pair of rolls acts to fold the final flap of thewrapper about the catalog. Prior to the engagement of the catalog withthe wrapper, a suitable quantity of adhesive has been automaticallyapplied to the wrapper so that

